I was in a couple focus testing groups for Dark Wizard at Sega back in the day. They were very concerned about our reactions to the anime art style. My friend and I were two of the only people in the group who even knew what anime was. It was a different time.
This is one of the few games that I owned for my Sega CDX. I still own my in-box version of the game, and whenever I get a new computer, it's one of the first games I emulate on it so I can play it whenever.
I've had the honor of meeting the NBA Jam announcer himself -- Tim Kitzrow, and he was generous enough to sign my copy of NHL Hitz 2002 on GameCube, one of my childhood favorites. He said his favorite game he recorded for was MLB Slugfest... great guy, really made the atmosphere of the Midway sports games come to life. BOOMSHAKALAKA!
I've always loved his announcing in all of the Midway sports games, he's so amazing. The personality he injects into them and the back and forth with other color commentators in the later games is so funny to listen to. It fits perfectly with the madness of what's happening on the field/court/ice. Would be so awesome to meet him like that
I turned 14 on March 28 1994, we were pretty poor when i was a kid. Birthdays were usually small, cheap events. My mom saved up for what must have been months to take me to dinner and bought me Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam for the SNES.. R.I.P. mom, you were and still are the best! ❤
As a Mario nerd, I know that one of the red shirts in that Star Trek game is Leslie Swan, who later became the voice for Princess Peach. In fact, I think most of the filler characters are people that were in the video game industry at the time.
Good lords, Midway from the mid 90s to the mid 00s was such a vibe. I can't think of any game they ported from arcades that wasn't a certified banger. From Jam to Blitz to Gauntlet, they knew how to get my friends over to my house.
Being able to play as Jordan was one of those myths that was all over the place when NBA Jam came out. There were people who claimed they played an arcade version with him, or that a code existed.
Pretty sure the first cabinets that came out in major markets like Chicago and New York did in fact have Jordan, but they removed him before the majority started shipping out everywhere else. So there were some cabinets that had Jordan as a player on the Bulls
One of the most interesting things about this show is the prices! When AAA games went up to $70 from $60 in the last year or so people freaked out (not without reason, inflation sucks). But seeing that some games used to cost $75 or even more, back in the 90's, it feels a little less bad, lol.
6:35 I loved Mario Andretti Racing on the Genesis. People didn't seem to realize that was a sim game. NBA Jam on the Genesis was excellent imho. The blocking was simplified, but that made it way easier to control.
For me was so frustrating that MJ, Shaq and Barkley were not on NBA Jam but instead on crappy games like Chaos in Wind City, Shaq Fu and Shut up and Jam.
Shaq&Barkley were in the arcade versions, No Shaq in home console editions.. Barkley was in early copies of nba jam though MJ&Gary Payton were a duo in arcade version but thats rare to find, some has to have that machine&video out there
Shining Force is a huge favorite and Dark Wizard looks like a neat try. Definitely had no clue about that. Thanks so much for all the awesome games every week! I love reliving this era.
NBA Jam was successful for two reasons. #1. It was fun. #2. Gameplay was accessible to everybody. It was a pick up and play game that anybody could play.
The Star Trek game was so hard as a kid. There were a ton of puzzle based sub-games through the course of it. I never got past finding the whole mining crew on the absolute MAZE that the planet was. The starship combat was awesome. We'd set a course across the galaxy at warp one with the challenge of fighting every time we were pulled out of warp with no stopping as long as the engines weren't damaged. Very awesome game!
I spent a lot of time on NBA Jam when my friends came over. I had the SNES multitap as well, and my friends would just bring extra controllers so we always could play. Dark Wizard was and still is one of my favorite games on the Sega CD. Because I wasn't ever able to beat it back then, it's been placed in my "retirement bucket list" alongside Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre, all slated to be 100% completed before I leave this mortal coil.
NBA Jam and Dark Wizard in the same week. I don't know which to talk about. Dark Wizard was a little beyond me at that time, but I really appreciate its depth and RPG-ness today. There's hidden treasures, different class upgrade paths, special unit combinations, a hidden ninja village, quests that will take you from town to town, and some unique quests and units for each of the four possible leaders. You can have your leader stand back at base, deploy your army carefully into battle, and support them with awesome magic spells, or you could be the most badass of warriors and lead a small band directly into the enemy's stronghold and take it over. You have to be on *A* castle tile to deploy troops, but it doesn't have to be *YOUR* castle tile. Similarly, you can spend your own units to raise the dead, or a nearby goat no matter who owns it.
I meant to say this way sooner, but when you briefly covered Normy's Beach Babe o Rama a while back, I wanted to mention that the creator was apparently just a small time comic artist who sadly passed away several years ago. God rest his soul for giving a game about saving cute girls from evil forces.. and working with EA along the way
"EA Bad !" I hate that people just mindlessly parrot this. EA hasn't always been the same company and for a good while they made decent to great games. They were one of the first that credited actual developers and took chances. They were (mostly) good until the 7th generation of consoles. Even now people just mindlessly hate on EA. The latest Battlefront 2 ports have been blamed on them when they have nothing to do with them. They have done much to deserve the hate but currently their games have been decent and have lacked micro transactions for a few years. The most egregious thing EA has done is released some games that were good but not optimized for PC. You have been conditioned.
I used to own "dark wizard" for the Sega CD. I was never good at strategy RPG games (still ain't) but the soundtrack and the cutscenes were awesome. I'd watch them just for that! 🎹🎧👌
Dark Wizard was my first SRPG, which led to Shining Force 2 afterwards, and I loved those games so much. Crazy to see NBA Jam on the covers of magazines, that game was the definition of a phenomenon - no way would a sports game get that much attention across the whole medium nowadays.
Oh hey! Star Trek: TNG! I actually have this for the Sega Genesis. I would often play this up to wherever it takes you through the mining area. Trying to traverse through it was so daunting at the time... My dad had beaten it before, and I would often load up that save file just to see how it ended. lol
I meet Tim Kitzrow every time he comes to town. He likes to take pictures with me and my kids every time. He made a voicemail message for me and I will probably use it forever. He is an amazingly nice and charismatic guy.
OMG I love Dark Wizard! I remember renting that game constantly (sometimes even dealing with late fees) because I was wanting to finish the game(which I did with the prince). Ended up buying it which made it the 2nd Sega CD game I bought. Still own and play it today
Dark Wizard was one of my favorite Sega CD games growing up. I actually played through all four storylines just to see the differences between them. If I remember correctly, there wasn't much difference gameplay-wise between the four, but there were differences in what units you had access to. There might've been more differences but it's been YEARS since the last time I played it, so it's hard to remember everything about it.
I still cannot believe that NBA Jam in the SNES has NO MUSIC during the court playing time, yet the Mega Drive version DOES. And this is includes the Tournament Edition versions as well! Even the bloody Game Boy has music during the court time! How did they screw that up that the SNES has NO MUSIC during court time?!
13:38 I feel ya dawg. Im staring down the Gold Saucer right now in my playthrough and Im looking at Tifa vs Aerith's happy meter like "Oh no I fucked up, I was to nice... TO RED!?"
They did a good job licensing NBA Jam for the 1UP cabinets. Only a handful of players- including longtime licensing holdouts Charles Barkley and Reggie Miller- are absent. They got nearly everybody. Even Shaq- who was in the first release but removed from later revisions for the same reasons as Jordan- is back.
Truth be told, my basketball game I played a ton on Genesis was College Slam. I can't remember if it had the same announcer as I do remember them going, "HE'S ON FIRE!" but not if it's the same as in NBA Jam. My cousin and I did play Jam on his Saturn or Sega CD(cannot remember which), and used codes to get Will Smith & Bill Clinton playable, and whenever Will would shoot his shot, the Announcer would go, "FRESH!" cause that's what Will was known for at the time.
All the secret characters and being on fire made NBA Jam iconic! Such a good game. It wasn’t until NFL Blitz that I got hyped on another sports game in the same way.
My mom had a store about a mile from the local arcade.. I use to walk there just to play nba jam on the arcade.. I remember the hype of it being brand new. Everyone played it. I remember having to wait in line just to play.. Nba jam and mortal kombat 2 was hott.. Never liked basketball till nba jam
NBA Jam is such a classic, never even played basketball or know how to play it but me and my brother loved going at it against each other in all the madness and funny announcer lines.
First, with everyone else saying you shouldn't do Miles O'Brien like that. I played the heck outta that game. Funnily enough SNESdrunk covered the 3 ST games that came out for SNES last week. Including of course, this one. Also NBA JAM!? Hard to go wrong with that.
Never heard of Jammit before, and those street/suburban locations are pretty appealing to me. I might have to try it sometime, even if it's no NBA Jam.
Now just being reminded how I used to have a Jam TE snes cart where I managed a perfect season with the Orlando Magic. The final five or so official teams were brutal by that point, given the cheese the A.I. is now infamous for, but a save file for the ages. Wish I still had that cart, now. *Update* before I forget, I did want to share that I also was able to attend a game dev panel meeting some years later, and who would be the guest of the session? *Mark freakin' Turmell!* Have to admit, once I got some time to actually talk to him, he certainly felt like an honestly chill bro, and 100% glad to have met him that day. 5/5, no notes.
I guess I'll use this time to ask. But there's one thing about NBA Jam that I never understood. When you go to block a shot at your basket and you command your guy to jump for it, he'll do one of two jumps to try and block or catch it. One where they jump straight up, and is generally more reliable towards grabbing the ball and another where he jumps up and sort of flings his hands out in front of them trying to presumably block it and is noticeably less reliable. 1. Is there a way to determine which they'll use by chance? 2. Is there a trick to the second way that makes it more reliable?
Wing Commander is a bit more WWII flight sim in space than Star Wars (no force, no jedis), but wait until next year when Wing Commander 3 comes out on the 3DO. Not played that version but if it's like the PS1 you'll enjoy some cutscenes with... Mark Hamill, amongst several other actors.
Hey, Jared. I'm an archivist of some sort, so I love these videos of yours. DKC is one of the greatest games of all-time. So everytime you mention it, I'm only reminded of it's greatness.
Holy crap that Star Trek ad with the "your face here" just time warped me back to reading EGM on my couch while watching Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers after school. I love how this show tickles long-dormant parts of my brain.
NBA Jam was great, but I loved the changes they made in NBA Hangtime. Making a custom character and seeing them get better through the season. Alley-oops, and the ability to "bail" from a dunk to a layup, gave a lot more options. Plus even more crazy dunks.
90’s sports games just hit different. They use to take chances and they would feel unique before EA just brought the rights to them all and turned it into one homogeneous mess. Remember when EA brought the rights to NFL Blitz and just turned it into an even buggier version of Madden? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I loved the heck out of Futures Past! I played it on SNES and enjoyed the space fights, the away missions, and even the database on the ship to look up lore. I didn't learn until decades later the Gen had CYOA dialog options during negotiations. One of my fav Trek games!
There's actually an in-house ROM hack of NBA Jam for SNES titled "NBA Jam XXX". It's basically the same game but with Tim's commentary replaced with more vulger alts like "Grabs his Johnson!" and "HE'S ON FUCKING FIRE!" Apparently, this stems from a scrapped plan to have an "Adult Mode" in the arcade NBA Jam that would have profanity in the commentary. The only other remnant of this is a clip in NBA Jam TE of Tim shouting "GET THAT SHIT OUTTA HERE!" Of course the NBA rejected this, even after censoring the line, so it was cut out instead. Tim denies ever recording any profanities, but the fact these lines exist, it's likely just to cover himself as he does sometimes do commentary officially.
I can’t remember where I heard it but pretty sure there is a ROM or arcade board that has Michael Jordan on it but due to those licensing issues it could not be distributed.
I literally had no idea the gold saucer date could be anyone but Tifa (just got there last night). That makes me feel amazing I got her for the date! Thanks Dylan
I like hearing stuff that was popular in Japan for one reason or another not get the wave it does in the West if it's released at all. Same happens in Japan, as I'm sure they didn't get the same roll-out with stuff like MK or even Jam when they came over. My disappointment in my youth that MJ wasn't the bald guy you were playing as on the Bulls cannot be understated, rubbing salt on the wound by having Scottie Pippin being the other player for the Bulls. Also, Dark Wizard looks awfully familiar in it's presentation. Is it at all related to "King of Monsters"?
NBA Jam was everyone's jam even if you hated sports. It was just.. splendid. And so nicely streamlined down, no other sports game was just a quick simple 2 on 2 where you could quickly run across the entire field like that. 5:44 god i miss when 'anime games' looked like this, instead of the horrors we get now.
Gotta love the fact that NBA Jam’s existence inherently spawned Charles Barkley’s Shut Up & Jam, Which itself ended up (unofficially) spawning Barkley: Shut Up & Jam-Gaiden, Which almost got a sequel. The way things go spiralling downward from normal, To knockoff, To twisted fan made game with a wicked theme song…. I love it
Hidden Jam Alert. Double Switch had an amazing 90s song in the middle of the game that is stuck in my brain. I think it went "Seen your face in the movies..." That game was cheesy and fun if you like FNAF like gameplay without jump scares.
I was in a couple focus testing groups for Dark Wizard at Sega back in the day. They were very concerned about our reactions to the anime art style. My friend and I were two of the only people in the group who even knew what anime was. It was a different time.
Well I’m glad the anime style stayed in. I loved it so much that I was doodling fan art of it when I was like 9 or 10.
This is one of the few games that I owned for my Sega CDX.
I still own my in-box version of the game, and whenever I get a new computer, it's one of the first games I emulate on it so I can play it whenever.
I've had the honor of meeting the NBA Jam announcer himself -- Tim Kitzrow, and he was generous enough to sign my copy of NHL Hitz 2002 on GameCube, one of my childhood favorites. He said his favorite game he recorded for was MLB Slugfest... great guy, really made the atmosphere of the Midway sports games come to life. BOOMSHAKALAKA!
I don't care much for sports games (though I did like hockey games) but my brother had NHL Hitz 2003 on xbox, such a fun hockey game.
Yeah, old creepy Vince McMahon stole all of his lines for "Wrestlemania"
@@DoCKathos NFL Blitz in the same vein
@@kingbaby8761 That guy is just a walking bottle of cocain
I've always loved his announcing in all of the Midway sports games, he's so amazing. The personality he injects into them and the back and forth with other color commentators in the later games is so funny to listen to. It fits perfectly with the madness of what's happening on the field/court/ice. Would be so awesome to meet him like that
Don't feel bad, Dylan. I think your segment is the best part of the show. It's less predictable and I never know what to expect.
You did NOT just shade my man Miles, the everyman hero! Colm Meaney is a brilliant actor and absolutely made that character.
I turned 14 on March 28 1994, we were pretty poor when i was a kid. Birthdays were usually small, cheap events. My mom saved up for what must have been months to take me to dinner and bought me Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam for the SNES..
R.I.P. mom, you were and still are the best! ❤
Fun fact: In continental Europe it was called NBA Marmelade
...⁉️.........😂😂😂
That Tifa comment let us all know that editor Dylan is a man of culture.
NBA Jam was one of those games that even people who don't typically like sports games like me tend to love.
As a Mario nerd, I know that one of the red shirts in that Star Trek game is Leslie Swan, who later became the voice for Princess Peach. In fact, I think most of the filler characters are people that were in the video game industry at the time.
Yeah I thought I read an article in a game magazine once that said they were Spectrum Holobyte employees.
This show is great, absolutely enjoy the back and forth with Jared and Dylan.
Jammit Janet!
Jared: "Its as boring as Chief O'Brien!"
Me: "YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT MY MAN MILES!!!!"
I came here to make the same comment, lol. Don't badmouth Chief O'Brien, the everyman gigachad.
Good lords, Midway from the mid 90s to the mid 00s was such a vibe. I can't think of any game they ported from arcades that wasn't a certified banger. From Jam to Blitz to Gauntlet, they knew how to get my friends over to my house.
Don't forget certified classic hour-wasters in the 90's Rampage games!
WOOOOOO DARK WIZAAAAARD! Been waiting for this game to be covered :D
Easily my favorite Sega CD game, by a pretty wide margin.
Being able to play as Jordan was one of those myths that was all over the place when NBA Jam came out. There were people who claimed they played an arcade version with him, or that a code existed.
There was an arcade version that had MJ&Gary Payton as a duo.. think they were on the all star team
Pretty sure the first cabinets that came out in major markets like Chicago and New York did in fact have Jordan, but they removed him before the majority started shipping out everywhere else.
So there were some cabinets that had Jordan as a player on the Bulls
One of the most interesting things about this show is the prices! When AAA games went up to $70 from $60 in the last year or so people freaked out (not without reason, inflation sucks). But seeing that some games used to cost $75 or even more, back in the 90's, it feels a little less bad, lol.
The O'Brien slander is unforgivable.
He was so awesome they put him in DS9.
O’Brien is the man, especially in DS9
Scrolled to the comments to say this. How DARE he? lol
"...perhaps the most important person in Starfleet history, chief Miles O'Brien" Lower Decks S01 E03
That was my first thought but I think he might be referencing the web comic.
Finally someone talks about dark wizard and how amazing it is. Sure, it's outdated, but being one of the earlest trpgs released.
I play NBA JAM at the arcade when I was a kid and it's still awesome today. 😀👍🏀🎮
Chief O'Brien is a saint, and I will have none of your foolishness.
That was my first thought but I think he might be referencing the web comic.
Cardissan propaganda
He never got the recognition he deserved.
he's still _boring._ I think he'd be proud of that. There's an old Irish curse "may you live in interesting times."
@KairuHakubi he certainly lived in interesting times and was cursed for it.
OMG DARK WIZARD THANK YOU JARED FOR NOT OVERLOOKING IT!!!!!
6:35 I loved Mario Andretti Racing on the Genesis. People didn't seem to realize that was a sim game. NBA Jam on the Genesis was excellent imho. The blocking was simplified, but that made it way easier to control.
For me was so frustrating that MJ, Shaq and Barkley were not on NBA Jam but instead on crappy games like Chaos in Wind City, Shaq Fu and Shut up and Jam.
You’re wrong, Charles Barkley IS in NBA Jam.
Shaq&Barkley were in the arcade versions, No Shaq in home console editions.. Barkley was in early copies of nba jam though
MJ&Gary Payton were a duo in arcade version but thats rare to find, some has to have that machine&video out there
Shining Force is a huge favorite and Dark Wizard looks like a neat try. Definitely had no clue about that. Thanks so much for all the awesome games every week! I love reliving this era.
30 years have passed and NBA Jam is still sitting on the throne of the most cool/badass sports games of all time 🏀
NBA Jam was successful for two reasons.
#1. It was fun.
#2. Gameplay was accessible to everybody. It was a pick up and play game that anybody could play.
YES! I love Dark Wizard. This was mind blowing as a kid.
Aw the Chief O’Brien shot was uncalled for 😂! Homeboy is an icon.
This man did not just call the most important man in Starfleet history boring.
O'BRIEN SUFFERED FOR ALL OUR SINS!
The Star Trek game was so hard as a kid. There were a ton of puzzle based sub-games through the course of it. I never got past finding the whole mining crew on the absolute MAZE that the planet was. The starship combat was awesome. We'd set a course across the galaxy at warp one with the challenge of fighting every time we were pulled out of warp with no stopping as long as the engines weren't damaged. Very awesome game!
Not only was it a maze, the air and other stuff.
These have been the highlight of my week. I look forward to them each time, thank you very much.
FINALLY, a Dark Wizard mention. Wow, this game was great. I loved it, and it made my Sega CD puchase worth it.
I spent a lot of time on NBA Jam when my friends came over. I had the SNES multitap as well, and my friends would just bring extra controllers so we always could play.
Dark Wizard was and still is one of my favorite games on the Sega CD. Because I wasn't ever able to beat it back then, it's been placed in my "retirement bucket list" alongside Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre, all slated to be 100% completed before I leave this mortal coil.
NBA Jam and Dark Wizard in the same week. I don't know which to talk about.
Dark Wizard was a little beyond me at that time, but I really appreciate its depth and RPG-ness today. There's hidden treasures, different class upgrade paths, special unit combinations, a hidden ninja village, quests that will take you from town to town, and some unique quests and units for each of the four possible leaders. You can have your leader stand back at base, deploy your army carefully into battle, and support them with awesome magic spells, or you could be the most badass of warriors and lead a small band directly into the enemy's stronghold and take it over. You have to be on *A* castle tile to deploy troops, but it doesn't have to be *YOUR* castle tile. Similarly, you can spend your own units to raise the dead, or a nearby goat no matter who owns it.
Glad to see someone else appreciated Dark Wizard.
*fist bump*
I meant to say this way sooner, but when you briefly covered Normy's Beach Babe o Rama a while back, I wanted to mention that the creator was apparently just a small time comic artist who sadly passed away several years ago. God rest his soul for giving a game about saving cute girls from evil forces.. and working with EA along the way
"EA Bad !"
I hate that people just mindlessly parrot this. EA hasn't always been the same company and for a good while they made decent to great games. They were one of the first that credited actual developers and took chances. They were (mostly) good until the 7th generation of consoles.
Even now people just mindlessly hate on EA. The latest Battlefront 2 ports have been blamed on them when they have nothing to do with them. They have done much to deserve the hate but currently their games have been decent and have lacked micro transactions for a few years. The most egregious thing EA has done is released some games that were good but not optimized for PC.
You have been conditioned.
8:40 - Ah, he said the thing! Roll credits!
3:17
He does it pretty much every episode. Two times in one video is a bit much, tbh.
I used to own "dark wizard" for the Sega CD. I was never good at strategy RPG games (still ain't) but the soundtrack and the cutscenes were awesome. I'd watch them just for that! 🎹🎧👌
Dark Wizard was my first SRPG, which led to Shining Force 2 afterwards, and I loved those games so much.
Crazy to see NBA Jam on the covers of magazines, that game was the definition of a phenomenon - no way would a sports game get that much attention across the whole medium nowadays.
The insolence! You take that back sir, Miles O'brien is an absolute legend and a hero of the federation well once he got his yellow shirt anyway 😂
Truth!
Oh hey! Star Trek: TNG! I actually have this for the Sega Genesis. I would often play this up to wherever it takes you through the mining area. Trying to traverse through it was so daunting at the time... My dad had beaten it before, and I would often load up that save file just to see how it ended. lol
The Chief O Brian slander is too damn high.
Shots fired at O'Brien?!! Hasn't he suffered enough
TBH - I prefer TE over OG version of NBA Jam 🥰
Everybody did. It was the far superior version.
I don't, but that's due to nostalgia
Hangtime is far and away the best, however the only problem is the lack of Tim Kitzrow.
@@karnovrpg close 2nd to me
TE the goat
I meet Tim Kitzrow every time he comes to town. He likes to take pictures with me and my kids every time. He made a voicemail message for me and I will probably use it forever. He is an amazingly nice and charismatic guy.
OMG I love Dark Wizard! I remember renting that game constantly (sometimes even dealing with late fees) because I was wanting to finish the game(which I did with the prince). Ended up buying it which made it the 2nd Sega CD game I bought. Still own and play it today
I've been looking forward to this! My Birthday week! Let's see what ya got for me Jerd!
Dark Wizard was one of my favorite Sega CD games growing up. I actually played through all four storylines just to see the differences between them. If I remember correctly, there wasn't much difference gameplay-wise between the four, but there were differences in what units you had access to. There might've been more differences but it's been YEARS since the last time I played it, so it's hard to remember everything about it.
I still cannot believe that NBA Jam in the SNES has NO MUSIC during the court playing time, yet the Mega Drive version DOES. And this is includes the Tournament Edition versions as well! Even the bloody Game Boy has music during the court time! How did they screw that up that the SNES has NO MUSIC during court time?!
They programmed the game in such a way that they couldn't fit both the music and the voices into audio ram at the same time.
13:38 I feel ya dawg. Im staring down the Gold Saucer right now in my playthrough and Im looking at Tifa vs Aerith's happy meter like "Oh no I fucked up, I was to nice... TO RED!?"
Released during march madness
10:46 "G** JAMMIT!"
11:07 "HIDDEN JAM ALERT!"
13:03 "The 90's equivalent of Five Nights at Freddy's."
Oh wow, looks like Dark Wizard is one of the (very) few games with a manga aesthetic from that period that _didn't_ get a westernized cover art!
They did a good job licensing NBA Jam for the 1UP cabinets. Only a handful of players- including longtime licensing holdouts Charles Barkley and Reggie Miller- are absent. They got nearly everybody. Even Shaq- who was in the first release but removed from later revisions for the same reasons as Jordan- is back.
Reggie is in NBA Jam tho
I played NBA Jam for the Genesis all the time, the secrets were really cool. The Sega CD version had more secret characters
I preferred the Genesis version above all others because it was the only home console version that featured Charles Barkley.
The Bulls handicap hidden cheat was hilarious 😂
Im just a moderate Star Trek fan but that Miles O Brien diss really hurt lol
Truth be told, my basketball game I played a ton on Genesis was College Slam. I can't remember if it had the same announcer as I do remember them going, "HE'S ON FIRE!" but not if it's the same as in NBA Jam.
My cousin and I did play Jam on his Saturn or Sega CD(cannot remember which), and used codes to get Will Smith & Bill Clinton playable, and whenever Will would shoot his shot, the Announcer would go, "FRESH!" cause that's what Will was known for at the time.
"It's as boring as Chief O'Brien."
Thems fighting words!
All the secret characters and being on fire made NBA Jam iconic! Such a good game. It wasn’t until NFL Blitz that I got hyped on another sports game in the same way.
My mom had a store about a mile from the local arcade.. I use to walk there just to play nba jam on the arcade.. I remember the hype of it being brand new. Everyone played it. I remember having to wait in line just to play.. Nba jam and mortal kombat 2 was hott..
Never liked basketball till nba jam
The relationship and banter between Jared and Dylan is becoming just as classic as the style of the show. Keep up the great work guys!
I was a big fan of Dark Wizard. Def. the best game on Sega CD
I thought I had a feeling of deja vu but it turned out that SNESDrunk covered Future's Past last week in a SNES Star Trek video. He liked it.
NBA Jam is such a classic, never even played basketball or know how to play it but me and my brother loved going at it against each other in all the madness and funny announcer lines.
First, with everyone else saying you shouldn't do Miles O'Brien like that. I played the heck outta that game. Funnily enough SNESdrunk covered the 3 ST games that came out for SNES last week. Including of course, this one.
Also NBA JAM!? Hard to go wrong with that.
Never heard of Jammit before, and those street/suburban locations are pretty appealing to me.
I might have to try it sometime, even if it's no NBA Jam.
One of the Loudest Arcades back in the 90's along with other Midway Cabinets, part of the BBall Culture
Now just being reminded how I used to have a Jam TE snes cart where I managed a perfect season with the Orlando Magic. The final five or so official teams were brutal by that point, given the cheese the A.I. is now infamous for, but a save file for the ages. Wish I still had that cart, now.
*Update* before I forget, I did want to share that I also was able to attend a game dev panel meeting some years later, and who would be the guest of the session? *Mark freakin' Turmell!* Have to admit, once I got some time to actually talk to him, he certainly felt like an honestly chill bro, and 100% glad to have met him that day. 5/5, no notes.
I guess I'll use this time to ask. But there's one thing about NBA Jam that I never understood. When you go to block a shot at your basket and you command your guy to jump for it, he'll do one of two jumps to try and block or catch it. One where they jump straight up, and is generally more reliable towards grabbing the ball and another where he jumps up and sort of flings his hands out in front of them trying to presumably block it and is noticeably less reliable.
1. Is there a way to determine which they'll use by chance?
2. Is there a trick to the second way that makes it more reliable?
Loving this format and channel. Keep up the good work guys!
You did *not* just drag my boy Miles O'Brien. Them's fightin' words.
Wing Commander is a bit more WWII flight sim in space than Star Wars (no force, no jedis), but wait until next year when Wing Commander 3 comes out on the 3DO. Not played that version but if it's like the PS1 you'll enjoy some cutscenes with... Mark Hamill, amongst several other actors.
Yeah, both the 3DO and PSX versions of Wing Commander 3 were directly ported from DOS. They're all basically the same game.
Especially love the writing lately guys! Hang in there Editor Dylan!
Thank you for bringing so much joy to my Fridays!
a now in the 90s vid on my birthday, how fun
Another great Friday! Now in the 90's
Would love to see Dark Wizard rereleased, it looks great!
Hey, Jared.
I'm an archivist of some sort, so I love these videos of yours. DKC is one of the greatest games of all-time. So everytime you mention it, I'm only reminded of it's greatness.
Holy crap that Star Trek ad with the "your face here" just time warped me back to reading EGM on my couch while watching Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers after school.
I love how this show tickles long-dormant parts of my brain.
NBA Jam was great, but I loved the changes they made in NBA Hangtime. Making a custom character and seeing them get better through the season. Alley-oops, and the ability to "bail" from a dunk to a layup, gave a lot more options. Plus even more crazy dunks.
So excited for this week's Sports Game coverage from three decades ago!
You forgot about NBA Street volume one and two oh my God those games were so fun on my PlayStation
Been waiting on NBA Jam! Boom Shakalaka!
Not close to a basketball fan bit loved NBA jam!
90’s sports games just hit different. They use to take chances and they would feel unique before EA just brought the rights to them all and turned it into one homogeneous mess. Remember when EA brought the rights to NFL Blitz and just turned it into an even buggier version of Madden? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
You talking about Blitz the League right??
@@oceano87no blitz the remake…
Actually Furing ps2 the EA sports BIG titles where awesome…
I loved the heck out of Futures Past! I played it on SNES and enjoyed the space fights, the away missions, and even the database on the ship to look up lore. I didn't learn until decades later the Gen had CYOA dialog options during negotiations. One of my fav Trek games!
There's actually an in-house ROM hack of NBA Jam for SNES titled "NBA Jam XXX". It's basically the same game but with Tim's commentary replaced with more vulger alts like "Grabs his Johnson!" and "HE'S ON FUCKING FIRE!"
Apparently, this stems from a scrapped plan to have an "Adult Mode" in the arcade NBA Jam that would have profanity in the commentary. The only other remnant of this is a clip in NBA Jam TE of Tim shouting "GET THAT SHIT OUTTA HERE!" Of course the NBA rejected this, even after censoring the line, so it was cut out instead. Tim denies ever recording any profanities, but the fact these lines exist, it's likely just to cover himself as he does sometimes do commentary officially.
Thought I was going crazy "didn't they just have star trek on last week?" Nope that was SNESDrunk.
Lay off the SNES dude.
Real talk, it is a pretty funny coincidence.
SSSnnNnNnnNnNNNNNnnnnES DRUNK!
Deja Vu....
I can’t remember where I heard it but pretty sure there is a ROM or arcade board that has Michael Jordan on it but due to those licensing issues it could not be distributed.
I literally had no idea the gold saucer date could be anyone but Tifa (just got there last night). That makes me feel amazing I got her for the date! Thanks Dylan
I like hearing stuff that was popular in Japan for one reason or another not get the wave it does in the West if it's released at all. Same happens in Japan, as I'm sure they didn't get the same roll-out with stuff like MK or even Jam when they came over.
My disappointment in my youth that MJ wasn't the bald guy you were playing as on the Bulls cannot be understated, rubbing salt on the wound by having Scottie Pippin being the other player for the Bulls.
Also, Dark Wizard looks awfully familiar in it's presentation. Is it at all related to "King of Monsters"?
Give Horace Grant the respect he deserves.
NBA Jam was everyone's jam even if you hated sports. It was just.. splendid. And so nicely streamlined down, no other sports game was just a quick simple 2 on 2 where you could quickly run across the entire field like that.
5:44 god i miss when 'anime games' looked like this, instead of the horrors we get now.
Gotta love the fact that NBA Jam’s existence inherently spawned Charles Barkley’s Shut Up & Jam,
Which itself ended up (unofficially) spawning Barkley: Shut Up & Jam-Gaiden,
Which almost got a sequel.
The way things go spiralling downward from normal,
To knockoff,
To twisted fan made game with a wicked theme song…. I love it
By far the best review show. Fresh and rad !!
Now hang the heck on, Dylan.
You're gonna tell me a game
whose title
is Jammit
is a HIDDEN Jam Alert?
The NBA Jam commercial. Just pure nostalgia and still one of my favorite arcade games along with T.E. edition.
Hidden Jam Alert. Double Switch had an amazing 90s song in the middle of the game that is stuck in my brain. I think it went "Seen your face in the movies..."
That game was cheesy and fun if you like FNAF like gameplay without jump scares.
You did not just malign The Most Important Person in Starfleet History!
3:37 And also... ,"SWEET."
Other sport game that got an Arcade style version was wrestling with Wrestlemania The Arcade Game.